DERA ISMAIL KHAN - At least four policemen including Deputy Superintendent Police (DSP) Kulachi Zahoor Khan sustained injuries in an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast here on Friday. The police mobile van was on routine patrol when the blast occurred in DI Khan’s Dara Mastang area injuring four policemen. The DSP was accompanied by his guard and other security personnel at the time of the attack. Emergency and security teams arrived at the blast site. Security forces cordoned off the area as a probe into the incident went underway.
Rescue personnel shifted the injured to the District Hospital DI Khan. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
During the past several years scores of people have died in drive-by shootings and bombings in the Dera Ismail Khan district bordering the restive tribal region.